
Jordan’s intelligence is now the CIA’s ally not Mossad Aljazeera \|\| November 21, 2005 An article published on Los Angeles Time’s Friday edition stated that Jordan's General Intelligence Directorate is now America’s CIA's key and most effective ally in the Middle East, instead of the Mossad, Israel’s spy agency. Ties between the GID and the CIA started to grow stronger after the September 11 attacks on the United States, the report said, adding that the two states cooperated in the interrogation of what Washington labels “terror suspects”, the methods of which, including abuse and torture against the detainees, sparked worldwide criticism. Intelligence cooperation between the two countries was confirmed by Michael Scheuer, who resigned from the CIA and who lately led a unit responsible for tracking Al Qaeda leader, Osama bin Laden. Article Posted at www.KnowledgeDrivenRevolution.com Scheuer stated that "Jordan is at the top of our list of foreign partners," "We have similar agendas, and they are willing to help any way they can," he told the Times. Scheuer and others officials interviewed by the Times, asserted that the GID is as professional as the Mossad despite the latter's reputation as the CIA's closest ally in the region. Another advantage the CIA sees in the GID is that Jordan, an Arab nation, is more effective in operating against predominantly Arab armed groups. "The GID ... has a wider reach [in the Middle East] than the Mossad," Scheuer said. Also Anderson, a former CIA Middle East division chief said that GID personnel are highly capable interrogators. "They're going to get more information [from a suspect] because they're going to know his language, his culture, his associates — and more about the network he belongs to," he said. The CIA funds a significant portion of Jordan’s intelligence budget- It also runs technologically-trained intelligence officers in the GID. Jordan has emerged as a hub for U.S.’s policy of "extraordinary renditions" of suspects from U.S. custody to other countries’ intelligence agencies. Suspects are transferred by America’s CIA to Jordan, where they are secretly interrogated and probably subjected to torture and abuse before being returned to American custody. "Extraordinary renditions" amounts to torture by proxy, with suspects being arrested (without being charged), blindfolded, sedated, and transferred to the destination country, where interrogators are given a list of questions from U.S. agencies. Most of the suspects on whom the U.S. applied its rendition policy, turn out to be innocent. Former CIA agent Bob Baer was once quoted as saying "If you want a serious interrogation, you send a prisoner to Jordan. If you want them to be tortured, you send them to Syria. If you want someone to disappear - never to see them again - you send them to Egypt." Numerous international human rights organisations and media outlets slammed the U.S. government for this policy, accusing America of using such a policy to hide the use of torture against detainees, since American courts have outlawed such methods. Lawyers of Yemeni suspects held in U.S. custody revealed that their clients were arrested in Pakistan and Afghanistan, and then flown to Jordan, where GID agents interrogated them, tortured them, and then handed them over to American intelligence officials. Among torture methods Jordan uses is sleep deprivation, beatings on the soles of the feet, prolonged suspension with ropes in contorted positions and extended solitary confinement. The total of annual military and economic aid Jordan receives from the U.S. is $450 million, but this doesn’t include the U.S. financing of Jordanian intelligence. About KDR \| \| Home \| \| Weekly Features Archive	Weekly Weekly Features Archive
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Jordan’s intelligence is now the CIA’s ally not Mossad

Aljazeera || November 21, 2005

An article published on Los Angeles Time’s Friday edition stated that Jordan's General Intelligence Directorate is now America’s CIA's key and most effective ally in the Middle East, instead of the Mossad, Israel’s spy agency.

Ties between the GID and the CIA started to grow stronger after the September 11 attacks on the United States, the report said, adding that the two states cooperated in the interrogation of what Washington labels “terror suspects”, the methods of which, including abuse and torture against the detainees, sparked worldwide criticism.

Intelligence cooperation between the two countries was confirmed by Michael Scheuer, who resigned from the CIA and who lately led a unit responsible for tracking Al Qaeda leader, Osama bin Laden.

Article Posted at www.KnowledgeDrivenRevolution.com

Scheuer stated that "Jordan is at the top of our list of foreign partners,"

"We have similar agendas, and they are willing to help any way they can," he told the Times.

Scheuer and others officials interviewed by the Times, asserted that the GID is as professional as the Mossad despite the latter's reputation as the CIA's closest ally in the region.

Another advantage the CIA sees in the GID is that Jordan, an Arab nation, is more effective in operating against predominantly Arab armed groups.

"The GID ... has a wider reach [in the Middle East] than the Mossad," Scheuer said.

Also Anderson, a former CIA Middle East division chief said that GID personnel are highly capable interrogators.

"They're going to get more information [from a suspect] because they're going to know his language, his culture, his associates — and more about the network he belongs to," he said.

The CIA funds a significant portion of Jordan’s intelligence budget- It also runs technologically-trained intelligence officers in the GID.

Jordan has emerged as a hub for U.S.’s policy of "extraordinary renditions" of suspects from U.S. custody to other countries’ intelligence agencies.

Suspects are transferred by America’s CIA to Jordan, where they are secretly interrogated and probably subjected to torture and abuse before being returned to American custody.

"Extraordinary renditions" amounts to torture by proxy, with suspects being arrested (without being charged), blindfolded, sedated, and transferred to the destination country, where interrogators are given a list of questions from U.S. agencies.

Most of the suspects on whom the U.S. applied its rendition policy, turn out to be innocent.

Former CIA agent Bob Baer was once quoted as saying "If you want a serious interrogation, you send a prisoner to Jordan. If you want them to be tortured, you send them to Syria. If you want someone to disappear - never to see them again - you send them to Egypt."

Numerous international human rights organisations and media outlets slammed the U.S. government for this policy, accusing America of using such a policy to hide the use of torture against detainees, since American courts have outlawed such methods.

Lawyers of Yemeni suspects held in U.S. custody revealed that their clients were arrested in Pakistan and Afghanistan, and then flown to Jordan, where GID agents interrogated them, tortured them, and then handed them over to American intelligence officials.

Among torture methods Jordan uses is sleep deprivation, beatings on the soles of the feet, prolonged suspension with ropes in contorted positions and extended solitary confinement.

The total of annual military and economic aid Jordan receives from the U.S. is $450 million, but this doesn’t include the U.S. financing of Jordanian intelligence.

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